Name Sasidharan Arattuvazhi Role Playwright | Parents Arjunan Pillai | |
Died January 21, 2001, Thiruvananthapuram Spouse Sudhakutty Arattuvazhi (m. ?–2001) Movies Yodha, CID Unnikrishnan BA - BEd, Pravachakan, Simhavalan Menon, Nettippattam Similar People Sangeeth Sivan, Viji Thampi, Rajasenan, Siddharth Lama, Oduvil Unnikrishnan | ||
Sasidharan Arattuvazhi (Born 1955) was a Malayalam playwright and screen writer. Within a career spanning more than two decades, he wrote 20 screenplays and 12 plays.
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Biography
Sasi was born at Arattuvazhi in Alappuzha district as the son of Arjunan Pillai. He liked writing plays while still only in school. His first professional stage play was Kolayaali (The Murderer). Later, when Sasi was studying at S. D. College, Alappuzha, the craze for writing plays besieged him again. He wrote plays and sent them to the All India Radio. Sasi shifted home base to Thiruvananthapuram, where he worked first as a journalist with magazines such as Kudumbakatha and Kuttikatha. He then set up his own advertising agency, Primary Colours. He wrote some of his notable stage plays during this time. Inspired by various screenplays of M. T. Vasudevan Nair, he developed a keen interest in writing screenplays for films. He made his flm debut with Kaladharan’s Nettipattam (1990). But the film failed both critically and commercially. He was then approached by Rajasenan, for whom he wrote the family drama Ayalathe Adheham. The film became a resounding hit. With this film, Sasi gained a place with the top-grade screenwriters of Malayalam. He went on to write screenplays for 18 more films, including the cult classic Yoddha, comic thriller CID Unnikrishnan B.A., B.Ed., family drama Kaliveedu, and the hilarious Cheppadividya. Yoddha, which released on 4 September 1992 is widely regarded as his master piece. The film became a landmark film in the history of Malayalam cinema, with its story, scenes, characters and music gaining cult status.
Sasidharan Arattuvazhi died on 21 January 2001. He was 45. He was suffering from cirrhosis, attributed by his heavy alcoholism. He is survived by his wife Sudhakutty and two daughters.